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A Very Special House

Author(s): Krauss, Ruth
Illustrator(s): Sendak, Maurice
Binding: Hardcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: Yes
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Protection: Mylar - Archival quality
Edition: 1st Edition
Impression: 1st Impression
Signature: None
Language: English
Publisher Name: Harper & Brothers
Publication Year: 1953
Publication Place: New York, USA
Book ID: 027789
Catalogue(s): Children's Books - Vintage ◇ Illustrated Books

First edition, first impression.  28pp, colour illustrations throughout.  In pictorial boards, canvas spine.  Slim 4to.  Boards gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Minor signs of fingering on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original matte pictorial dust wrapper, price clipped, worn, edge-chapped, scuffed around spine, minor marks, small stamp on inner front flap.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

An early Krauss/Sendak collaboration, now hard to find.

Keywords:
Art Illustrated Books Children's Books Vintage Books Maurice Sendak

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